Poetry Flashcards
Trochee: the marching foot
- is much firmer and more assertive
- stressed-unstressed|stressed-unstressed
Lamb: the walking foot
- steady pace, and helps concentrate on meaning rather than rhythm
- unstressed-stressed| unstressed-stressed
Anapaest: the galloping foot
unstressed-unstressed-stressed|unstressed-unstressed-stressed
Rhyme: masculine
Only rhyme at the very end of words
Rhyme: feminine
Multiple rhyming syllables
Stanza: quatrain
4 lines
Stanza: sestet
6 lines
Stanza: tercet
3 lines
Stanza: couplet
2 lines in a stanza
Poetic form: ballads
- contains a lot of dialogue
- action is often describe bed in the first person
Poetic form: sonnets
14 lines
Poetic form: elegies
Mourns death
Poetic form: odes
- serious subject
- praise of something
Poetic form: villanelle
19 lines
Poetic form: lyric
Musical description
- sonnet and haiku
Poetic form: narrative
1st and 2nd person
Poetic form: haiku
5
7
5
Poetic devices: simile
Comparing two unrelated things
- using the words like or as
Poetic devices: metaphor
Meaning ascribed to one subject by way of another
Poetic devices: personification
Human and object
Poetic devices: alliteration
The words being with the same sound
Poetic devices: onomatopoeia
The sound the word makes
Example- ‘splat’
Poetic devices: oxymoron
Awfully pretty
Contradicting words
